Inventory Last Week · Your AI Usage

Open Copilot Chat history for the last five working days. You do not need a CSV. Titles, timestamps, and what you remember shipping are enough.

Evidence before advice.

Note the apps: Chat, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams. People often “use Copilot a lot” in one surface and never in the one that would ship the work.

If IT has a usage report, use it as a second lens — not as a grade.

Core principles

Inventory by task type, not by vibe: email, decks, analysis, meeting recap, coding, other.
Write down which Copilot surface you used. Wrong surface is a common spin source.
Flag anything you cannot remember. Forgotten chats are often spin.
Do not include confidential thread content in the prompt — describe the job, not the customer.

Check yourself

What should an honest usage inventory include?

Do this in Copilot

Make a five-line inventory: day, task type, Copilot surface, shipped yes/no, notes.

Describe jobs, not client names. Keep the table for the rest of the course.

Build the inventory table

Turn my rough Copilot week into a table. Columns: day, task type, Copilot surface (Chat / Word / PowerPoint / Excel / Teams / other), shipped (Y/N/unclear), one-line note. Here is what I remember or copied from history (no confidential content): [PASTE INVENTORY]. After the table, tell me which row is thinnest evidence and what I should look up in history before Lesson 3.

Techniques: Role + task + format

Open Copilot

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